Using Cloudflare Turnstile Invisible Challenges for Mobile APIs Without Breaking the User Experience
Cloudflare Turnstile offers a solution to reduce automated traffic on mobile APIs without using traditional CAPTCHAs. The implementation requires careful design, treating Turnstile as a verification signal rather than an authorization model. This approach allows for bot friction while maintaining a seamless user experience for legitimate users.
- ▪Mobile apps calling APIs through Cloudflare face challenges from automated traffic.
- ▪Turnstile produces short-lived tokens that must be validated by the backend.
- ▪The backend decides whether to allow or challenge API requests based on various risk factors.
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try { if(localStorage) { let currentUser = localStorage.getItem('current_user'); if (currentUser) { currentUser = JSON.parse(currentUser); if (currentUser.id === 3932577) { document.getElementById('article-show-container').classList.add('current-user-is-article-author'); } } } } catch (e) { console.error(e); } Mike Anderson Posted on May 26 Using Cloudflare Turnstile Invisible Challenges for Mobile APIs Without Breaking the User Experience #cloudflare #applicationsecurity #cybersecurity #waf The problem we are solving We have mobile apps calling APIs through Cloudflare. The APIs are seeing automated traffic from headless browsers, scripted clients, and bot-like agents. The business requirement is clear: reduce abuse without showing users a traditional CAPTCHA.
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